IPFT to hold protest in Delhi demanding autonomous Tipra Territorial Council through Constitutional amendment

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Members of Indigenous People's Front of Tripura observing a 100-hour hunger onslaught   to request  elevation of Sixth Schedule areas of Tripura to full-flegded Statehood successful  New Delhi successful  2017. File

Members of Indigenous People's Front of Tripura observing a 100-hour hunger onslaught to request elevation of Sixth Schedule areas of Tripura to full-flegded Statehood successful New Delhi successful 2017. File | Photo Credit: V. Sudershan

In an evident contention with the Tipra Motha Party for prominence successful State politics, Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), a inferior spouse of the BJP-led conjugation successful Tripura, volition clasp a objection successful New Delhi, pressing a request for the augmentation of an autonomous territory assembly done amendment of Article 125 of the Constitution successful Parliament.

Party leaders said they had not fixed up the request for a abstracted tribal State but chiefly sought the mounting up of Tipra Territorial Council successful enactment with the Bodo Territorial Council.

The leaders were speaking present connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) aft constituting a caller cardinal enforcement committee of the party. They informed that the disturbance successful Delhi adjacent period would beryllium held successful confederation with the National Federation of New States (NFNS) of which IPFT is simply a constituent.

IPFT, which has sole practice successful the State Assembly and the Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Manik Saha, does not person overmuch governmental clout successful the State owing to the surge of the Tipra Motha with Greater Tipraland plank. To marque itself relevant, the enactment has begun raising demands akin to that of the Motha.

IPFT announced that it would clasp a ‘students and younker rally’ successful Agartala adjacent month, demanding Roman publication successful spot of Bangla publication for the Kokborok connection successful CBSE and State board-run secondary and higher secondary examinations. The day and venue of the rally is taxable to support of the constabulary administration, the enactment leaders added.

The publication contention resurfaced a time aft Tipra Motha laminitis Pradyot Kishore Debbarman expressed utter interest implicit the resentment successful the indigenous assemblage for not allowing reply sheets successful Roman script. He sought contiguous solution of the contentious issue.

Published - November 30, 2025 10:36 p.m. IST

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